There is some conflicting info. on reviews. 1.Does it have gigabit ports? 2. Does it have qos? 3. Are antennas able to be removed and replaced? Thank
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I've never removed the antennas, and I don't know the answer to your other questions. I just know that it works well.
28193
No to 1&3 (and I only see 2 antennas on mine) and I don't know what qos (#2) is.
2209480
Too many unknowns (distance/topography/power/etc). I'd recommend contacting a local IT company to do a site survey. BTW, these specific APs are not designed for outdoor use. See Ubiquiti UniFI AP Outdoor 2x2 MIMO Access Point 802.11bgn
594882
Yes, the antenna is detachable (it unscrews). I don't know the format (SMA, reverse polarity SMA, etc).
1350426
Just received this unit the other day. Tried to use the ports (one at a time) for charging, both worked fine. I asked coz I saw the picture on 1 of the reviews, the location of the charging port at the mount can be a problem at some position/angle but since there are 2 port options for charging there should be no more issue BUT the drawback would be using a different cable (w/o the FM transmitter) rendering Traffic info feature disabled. For me it's fine to disable that feature coz like many others, I find those pop up advertisements annoying, haven't proven this feature's accuracy though.
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Well, there is no QoS, but there is something else which is better, in this router you can create a group for cameras and create Granted Upload speed which is better than QoS especially if you have several cameras and another devices using the same network. This router will use one WAN at a time not both, and one WAN will be back up for the other. so if you are looking for a load balancer buy the highest models, and by the way this one have no POE and its speed is 100Mbps.
1549872
Yes, 5GHz is 5GHz. But this antenna is only 1 element and not dual polarity so you won't be able to take advantage of the advanced features of ac such as mimo and multi channel. I would suggest a ubiquiti product for full ac features.
1435377
I does come with an antennae.... Listen Richard, 2 of my sailing buddies and myself own this unit and we are not very satisfied with the performance! It's supposed to be a top one, but after 3 years of using it, I find that transmission and reception are very shaky (actually it died on me once and I had to send it for 6 weeks to WA Stage @ ICOM's HQ to be repaired (under warranty))..... Again, the reception is not always great and sometimes I get frustrated when a friend with a cheap WEst Marine unit, is able to get through but not me...
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I do not own either of these two devices. But, I have a 5-port device that is similar. From what I can tell, one of the two is metallic and the other is plastic. I am always interested in the metallic devices which can be more durable and appear to offer more shielding. The plastic model offers some energy saving capabilities that I did not notice in the metallic one. It is possible that one model offers multiple pathways at the same time so that more than two devices can communicate across it at the same time, and I would guess that the plastic one can do that, but I am not that familiar with these models to be sure. As both are gigabit capable and both have the same number of ports, then you are free to make your own choice. Good luck.
952826
Yes, you can remove the two antennas. The connector that is on the router is a reverse polarity, or RP, SMA female connector.
594879
Yes the antenna is detachable. In fact, I have one of those D-Link long range antennas that I attached to this. However, I did not realize any performance improvements. I am also not all that familiar with antennas either to even know if changing the antenna would provide any type of benefit. There is also a configuration in the wireless options where you set your antenna gain. Nonetheless, physically you can unscrew the existing one and put in a different antenna.
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Yes it does.*Operating Bands◦X-band: 10.525 GHz ± 25 MHz◦K-band: 24.150 GHz ± 100 MHz◦Ka-band: 34.700 GHz ± 1300 MHz◦Ku-band: 13.400 GHz ± 25 MHz◦Laser: 904nm, 33MHz bandwidth
72061
It has a built in external antenna. It does not have external attachment for any extra antenna you may want to attach. Hope that answers your question.
1958351
I am not sure there was any information in the packaging concerning this, and I don't have the packaging anymore. Take a look at the specs on the site and see if it has any information. I will say that I am a "dead zone" and it works pretty well. Although I do still some signal loss intermittently. I also raised the antenna very high, which seems to help. Honestly, for a little more, you can get a better antenna, but it will look "ugly" above the house.
1401270
So far it isn't looking good. The wifi is not removable and the eSata is not, as Kaerlo Michael Dulay said, PM ready. I am now also researching external port multiplier solutions - eSata, to external multiplier to external enclosure. Kind of a kludge though. I will post back when (if) I get anything new.
1511058
Certainly the GL is a better model, but unless users really want to hack their routers and don't care if they void the warranty, this version (v5-v7) is good enough for most purposes.I would go to the Linksys website and get the latest firmware, and possibly upgrade the antennas if necessary.
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I just bought this model yesterday (1/28) @ Bestbuy and the AC Wireless works well and does support both 2.4 / 5 ghz bands. I was connected at 240 mbps with only 3/5 bars signal strength and had no issues at all (unsure of what the difs are between the bestbuy version and the amazon product featured here)
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The hardware is more than capable. However the GUI front end was quite different than off the shelf routers. Many advanced functions were as of a couple of months ago only available from the command line. I've got one running at home for basic NAT, and saturate my a 25 Mb/s cable connection with torrents and it has no issue with that. However a high end Buffalo with DD-WRT , even if you turn off the radios would be my first choice. Unless you are going to use the POE for ubiquity WiFi.